Rosanne Dumps Champ on Debut
East London’s Rosanne Hodge marked her debut on surfing’s 2007 ASP Women’s World Tour by defeating 2004 World Champ Sofia Mulanovich (Peru) to move into the third round of the US $80 000 (approx R565 000) Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Samsung in Australia on Tuesday.
Rosy Qualifies for ASP World Tour
Rosanne Hodge (19) of East London is one of 16 surfers world-wide to qualify for the elite 1007 ASP World Championship Tour.
Life’s Rosy for Bronze Medal Hodge
An elated South African surfing team collected two gold medals, two bronze and a copper while finishing fourth out of 33 nations at the 2006 ISA World Surfing Games at Huntington Beach in California on Sunday.
SA Into Last 16 Surfing
The strength of women’s surfing in South Africa was evident at the ISA World Surfing Games in California yesterday when Rosanne Hodge (East London) and Tammy-Lee Smith (Salt Rock, KZN) both progressed through two rounds of competition, to reach the last 16 in the qualifying stream of the biennial event.
Surfing Colours at Awards
Granville West of Port Elizabeth was named captain of the 2006 SA Surfing Team at the Colours Awards evening in Cape Town Monday night.
SA Surf Team for ISA World Games
The 2006 SA Surfing Team will leave Cape Town for the United States tomorrow (Tuesday October 10) to compete in the ISA World Surfing Games which gets under way in Huntington Beach California on Saturday October 14.
Sarah’s Out There with Billabong
A light drizzle that cleared later did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the competitors and spectators at the festival of female surfing action in Durban on Sunday as Sarah Maritz took the premier Open women’s title in the first of four Billabong “Girls Get Out There’ Summer Surf Series events.
Girls Dis Shark for Roxy Surf
Despite strong south east winds, freezing water and a shark scare on Day one of the event, Long Beach Kommetjie produced the goods for both days of the Roxy Surf Jam over the weekend of September 3 and 4.